Word: heisman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Word has been received from John Heisman, coach of the University of Pennsylvania football team, to the effect that the Committee on Rules and Constitution, of which the Red and Blue mentor is chairman, has been working for almost a year to perfect plans for the organization. The other members of the committee are Dr. Wilce and Major Charles D. Daly, head coach of the West Point eleven...
...advisability of adopting such a plan among the colleges I say nothing. I merely wish to call to the attention of the editorial staff that such things have been done and are being done in other institutions with more or less success. If suggestion can prove anything, Coach Heisman's proves just that...
According to the "New York Times" Coach Heisman of Pennsylvania favors "legislation to stop light men being pitted against heavy ones on the gridiron." He would apply the rule of the boxing ring to the football field, asserting that the fact it "did not apply was one of the defects of the game...
...consider Coach Heisman's plan: the proposed rule being passed, a football team must play opponents in the same class, say 158 to 175 pounds; and every man of the team must weigh in, as in boxing, between these figures. The guards and backfield would tip the scales alike. Such a plan, needless to say, would simply do away with football as it is played today. The game might be played under conditions that appeared more equal, but the tactics would change; and as for a college possessing teams in assorted sizes,--well, all that is not football...
...gridiron a scene of brutal sport, especially those who know little about it. Such people would probably object to the game no matter what conditions prevailed regarding weight. And even they must have observed that the big men are as liable to injury as the little ones. Coach Heisman's suggestion leaves us bewildered. Just what does it prove...